Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her
family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to
Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when
she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First
Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only
published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her
novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and
Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Jane Austen
died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both
published posthumously in 1818.
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international
phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel
Dalhousie Series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44
Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at
the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many
national and international bodies concerned with bioethics.
www.alexandermccallsmith.com
Leanne Shapton is an illustrator, author and publisher based in New
York City. http-//leanneshapton.com/
An incredibly funny, very upmarket love story with an enchanting
heroine and the perfect romantic hero: a tartar with a heart of
gold
*Jilly Cooper*
Another question I've been regularly asked over the past year is
what models I had in mind when writing Curious Incident. Was it To
Kill a Mockingbird? Was it Catcher in the Rye? In fact, the book
most often in my mind was Pride and Prejudice
*Mark Haddon*
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her
taste
*Virginia Woolf*
I am a great admirer of Jane Austen
*Alexander McCall Smith*
The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist
*Independent*
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